I wanted to put together a podcast studio for recording crystal clear in-person interviews. Something portable, easy to set up, and that best filters out background noise. I looked around to find what other top broadcasters were using and this is what I end up buying.

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Traditional podcast studios feature a microphone, a boom arm and a shock mount to hold the microphone. A pop filter to banish the hissing and lisping sounds when pronouncing. And headphones to monitor recording.

Instead of getting all that, I got two of these headsets. An all-in-one solution for recording and monitoring high-quality podcast interviews.

You'll need an audio interface to use 3-pin XRL professional microphones like the one in the headset above. I chose this one because it's small, it has two XLR inputs, and it had the best price.

I did consider using a Zoom H4N portable audio recorder to cut having to use a laptop when recording. But the Zoom adds static noise to the audio recording and it is noticeable even after basic editing for noise reduction.